• Craft and Criticism

    Addiction

    Writing About My Alcohol Addiction Helped Treat It

    By Clare Pooley  February 26, 2020
    In Conversation

    In Mark Rader’s Debut Novel, Love Stands in the Way of Obligation

    By Lori Feathers  February 26, 2020
    Marginalia

    A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of The Price of Salt

    By Antonia Angress  February 25, 2020
    WWII

    Erik Larson on Writing Wartime Life During the London Blitz

    By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    What I’ve Learned Interviewing Almost 300 Writers Over Seven Years

    By Teddy Wayne  February 25, 2020
    5 Questions

    Colum McCann on Ulysses, Mary Lavin, and Drinking with John Berger

    By Literary Hub  February 25, 2020
    Folklore

    Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

    By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
    Teaching High School

    You Can’t Teach High School English Without Hope

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    Self-Help?

    Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

    By Chelsea Leu  February 21, 2020
    On Poetry

    On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
    Amelia Earhart

    By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
    Poets

    Danez Smith: ‘Being a Poet Means Committing to Vulnerability’

    By Sheila Regan  February 21, 2020
    Storytelling

    Relearning to Write After Law School Buried My Voice

    By Akhila Kolisetty  February 21, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Victoria Chang on the Self
    and Its Many Deaths

    By Peter Mishler  February 21, 2020
    Adaptations

    In 2020’s Emma., Emma Woodhouse Raids Cher Horowitz’s Wardrobe

    By Emily Temple  February 20, 2020
    The Hub

    Authors Guild releases grim 50-page report on “The Profession of the Author in the 21st Century”

    By Jonny Diamond  February 19, 2020
    The Hub

    In which a very blasé Carson McCullers gets interviewed on a ship.

    By Emily Temple  February 19, 2020
    The Hub

    I regret to inform you that Miss Havisham, Dickens’ embittered crone, is actually only . . . 40.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 19, 2020
    Debut Novels

    Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist

    By Brandon Taylor  February 18, 2020
    La Belle Epoque

    The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

    By Julian Barnes  February 18, 2020
    Valentine's Day

    You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine’s Day

    By Emily Temple  February 14, 2020
    Rereadings

    In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

    By Michelle Chihara  February 14, 2020
    Interview

    Few Were As Devoted to Poetry and Friendship as Harry Mathews

    By Literary Hub  February 13, 2020
    Fascism

    The Graveyard Talks Back:
    Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

    By Arundhati Roy  February 12, 2020
    End Times

    We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill’s World

    By Kristin Iversen  February 11, 2020
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